2019-02-22T15:32:33ZThe Early Modern Species Translated: Understanding Species Adjacency in Early Modern Textshttp://hdl.handle.net/10822/1053059
The Early Modern Species Translated: Understanding Species Adjacency in Early Modern Texts
This thesis explores attitudes toward nonhuman species in an effort to account for the acceptance of talking and reasoning animals in pre-Cartesian literature. It analyzes early modern Bestiaries and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to see how various species are addressed in different genres and conventions. Through these explorations we see that the human-animal divide, rather than staying rigid as one expects, is marked by its fluidity and acceptance of shared traits.
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2019-01-16T19:14:39ZMakings of the Body: The Role of Ontologies and Feminism in the Making of the Civic Bodyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10822/1053058
Makings of the Body: The Role of Ontologies and Feminism in the Making of the Civic Body
In this thesis my intention is to theorize the black female body in and around a black feminist tradition. I am specifically interested in tracing how black feminism has theorized the black female body. While my discussion oscillates between both black lives and black bodies, the bodies of black women are the text –– that is, the object under study. My thesis contributes to the field an examination into how the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM) is being played out through black female bodies. This logic of this argument accepts that BLM follows a fundamentally black feminist tradition, and thus, has aims rooted in the same advocacy work that provided the foundation for the development of what we know contemporarily as Black feminism. This thesis considers, in great detail, the erasure of black existence through the lives of unarmed black women. The three bodies under review in this thesis are Renisha McBride, Shereese Francis, and Malissa Williams. While there are many women of color who have died at the hands of the state, the lives of these specific
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2019-01-16T19:14:38ZGame Studies for Great Justicehttp://hdl.handle.net/10822/1051500
Game Studies for Great Justice
In this chapter, Amanda Phillips explores a range of strategies for implementing social justice in game studies scholarship.
2018-08-29T15:59:34ZFeet Down, New Planet: Exorbitance and Queer Futurities in The Well of Loneliness, Lesbian Pulp Fiction, and Radical Feminist Manifestoshttp://hdl.handle.net/10822/1050779
Feet Down, New Planet: Exorbitance and Queer Futurities in The Well of Loneliness, Lesbian Pulp Fiction, and Radical Feminist Manifestos
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2018-06-22T13:45:22ZThe Art of Ecological Selfing: Speculative Ecobildungsromane in Cloud Atlas and Never Let Me Gohttp://hdl.handle.net/10822/1050778
The Art of Ecological Selfing: Speculative Ecobildungsromane in Cloud Atlas and Never Let Me Go
This thesis explores how contemporary clone narratives explicate human-made ethical dilemmas, and how the nonhumans seem to stay in the periphery even if they appear human-like. Central to this thesis is the idea of an Ecobildungsroman: a development narrative which focuses on nonhuman subjects rather than human ones. I examine David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go in order to detail how both novels critique the traditional genre of the Bildungsroman in order to show how the category of personhood needs to be challenged in order to permit space for nonhuman personhood.
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2018-06-22T13:45:22ZTeaching Nineteenth-Century English Literature from Different Perspectives: A Kazakh's Experience in American Academiahttp://hdl.handle.net/10822/1050775
Teaching Nineteenth-Century English Literature from Different Perspectives: A Kazakh's Experience in American Academia
In this thesis, I compare how English literature of the nineteenth century is taught in undergraduate courses in Kazakhstani and American universities. The work demonstrates what goals and objectives are pursued, what methods professors use for achieving their goals and what influences their choices in teaching. The paper examines the possibility of transferring the way of teaching English literature of the nineteenth century of an American university to Kazakhstani universities.; My first chapter examines the Model Curriculum, reading materials and the approaches of teaching English literature in Kazakhstani universities, with the example of Central Kazakhstan Academy. This chapter demonstrates the need to switch from the old model of teaching English literature in Kazakhstan, which is focused on rote study, to new methods of teaching English literature. In the second chapter I explain how English literature of the nineteenth century is taught in the U.S. in comparison to Kazakhstan, illustrating the differences and the peculiarities of teaching in American universities, with the examples of Georgetown University (private) and University of Maryland (public). The third chapter centers on my proposed approaches of teaching English literature of the nineteenth century for Kazakhstani students majoring in English.
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